Bill Gates: Google Doesn’t Understand Business Needs
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Bill Gates seems to feel that Google doesn’t get it when it comes to the needs of business. Slamming Google Apps, the once head of the Microsoft empire stated that:
“In terms of Google, not to overstate it, but they really don’t understand the special needs of business. Today, their economic model is based on consumer search. They have done an incredible job there and obviously we’re investing in challenging them in that space …
“If you’ve seen … the Google tools that have tried to do productivity type things, they really don’t have the richness the responsiveness. You can see that relative [to] the success they have had there. Most of these Google products, to be frank, the day they announce them is their best day and then after that ….”
He also stated that whether Microsoft gets Yahoo! or not, it is ready to challenge the search field on the Internet. Interesting points. But will Microsoft really be able to challenge Google? Time will tell.
Comments welcome.
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the oracle
March 6th, 2008
at 9:09am
My question is - Does anyone really care what Bill Gates has to say anymore? He has abandoned the core of Microsoft to idiots like Ballmer, that while he may be a good soldier under Gates, has no clue about how to continue, and absolutely no idea about social comportment in the world of normal people. Even if Ballmer were to come up with something brilliant, how could he possibly relate it to any normal person? How could any normal development cycle take place?
It is clear that Microsoft has lost its focus, preferring to do many things abysmally rather than a few really well. Every part of their business is worse than it was 5 years ago - operating systems, office productivity, computer hardware, gaming division, and also services (Hotmail, Live).
The idea people are leaving the company, either by natural loss (retirement) or through being pulled to areas of greater opportunity. The visionary is gone, and others can only see the next step given by the taskmaster, Ballmer. Without a set of points to chart a course, the company will soon be another lumbering hulk, too large to easily collapse, and yet steadily on that path.
Ron Schenone
March 6th, 2008
at 12:31pm
Hi Mark,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings. Ballmer is no Gates.
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